A814 crash in West Dunbartonshire on 5 March 2012 at 10:00 involving a Scania bus
A Scania bus and an Iveco van were involved in a crash on the A814 in West Dunbartonshire at 10:00 on Monday 5 March 2012. A 26-year-old male passenger in the Iveco van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Mar 2012
- Monday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Scania and Iveco
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94854, longitude -4.60345, in the G82 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dumbarton.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201297LA01003
- Council area
- West Dunbartonshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 814
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 2006.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A814 in West Dunbartonshire, 17 April 2006
14 m awayRef 200697LA03804
Serious
Car crash on the A814 in West Dunbartonshire, 29 October 1986
32 m awayRef 198697LA04810
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A814 in West Dunbartonshire, 17 August 1994
32 m awayRef 199497LA01408
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A814 in West Dunbartonshire, 16 May 1994
32 m awayRef 199497LA01505
Slight
Car crash on the A814 in West Dunbartonshire, 11 November 1981
32 m awayRef 198197LA01111
Slight
Car crash on the A814 in West Dunbartonshire, 21 August 1986
32 m awayRef 198697LA02008
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Iveco
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,920 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Iveco)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 201297LA01003 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Dunbartonshire road accident statistics for 2012.